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Dr Richard Jenkins expands his dual-chief executive role to include a 12-month interim post at Doncaster and Bassetlaw, aiming to strengthen regional healthcare delivery.

Restrictions placed on national clinical audits raise an uncomfortable question for a government that has staked its authority on confronting maternity failure: has anything actually changed in how the health service handles uncomfortable truths?

Katie Fisher takes permanent charge of NHS West and North London as the commissioning body prepares to serve 4.5 million residents across the capital.

As trusts spend tens of millions on AI systems designed to protect against litigation, and patients turn to the same technology to press their claims, the real story is what this reveals about a service that no longer assumes good faith from the people it treats.

An employment tribunal in Hull ruled that Augustine Akali, a consultant plastic surgeon, was unfairly dismissed after taking an unauthorised secondment in Abu Dhabi, but reduced his award to nil because of his own conduct.

Forfeiture letters submitted to the Cabinet Office mark the latest test of whether individual accountability can follow institutional failure in the NHS.

Senior NHS leader leaves interim post at newly formed South West Peninsula cluster for personal reasons, sparking questions over continuity during high-level structural reforms.

NHS England's new quality strategy asks the National Quality Board to define a decade of standards from an organisation with no decade left to enforce them.

Ambient voice technology becomes an early priority as central health tech investment moves from pilot to national rollout.

Independent findings point to guideline deviations, surgical competency concerns and over-reliance on a single consultant at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals.

Ministers signal NHS trusts 'must use' new data platform, ignoring parliamentary pressure to trigger break clause and drop supplier.

Sir Jim Mackey's crackdown on unlawful data access addresses individual misconduct, but leaves unresolved whether the health service's expanding digital architecture can be trusted with the access it is creating .

Behind the NHS measles catch-up drive lies a harder story about deprivation, ICB cuts and a health department that has changed hands nine times in a decade

Keir Starmer's last set-piece on the world stage says more about the machinery of British government than about Nato

As he hands over to Andy Burnham, the outgoing Prime Minister's retrospective says more about the NHS than it admits

Twenty years after Lord Carter originally advised the NHS to combine its laboratories, one third of pathology systems are still working as earlier, and the expense for that inertia has grown into the billions.

A £4.7bn defence shortfall lands on Burnham's desk before he has even chosen a chancellor. NHS leaders have been living this exact scenario for years.

A review of primary care infrastructure could spark a major reassessment of how the health service uses its multi-billion pound property portfolio

Another regional director gone after little more than a year in post is not an isolated personnel matter, it is a symptom of a system that cannot hold its leaders long enough to let them lead

The dismissals form part of a wider pattern of confidentiality breaches that has put NHS trusts under growing pressure to control who can see patient files